About this episode
I flip, you flip, we all flip for…pancakes! Join Spoonie as she explores different types of pancakes from all over the world. Spoonie is all ready to make super fluffy buttermilk pancakes - yum!- but will friend and fellow utensil, Spatty the spatula be able to get over his nerves in time to flip Spoonie’s pancakes for “The Big Taste”? Special guest Reem Kassis joins and tells us about qatayef asafiri, stuffed pancakes eaten during the month of Ramadan, and kid guest, Anoushka, who shares her favorite appam pancakes from Kerala, India too! Reem Kassis is a Palestinian food and culture writer and author of the best-selling and award-winning cookbooks, The Palestinian Table (2017), The Arabesque Table (2021) and the children’s book, We Are Palestinian (2023). Her writing regularly appears in The New York Times , The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post in addition to various news outlets, magazines and academic journals. She grew up in Jerusalem, obtained her undergraduate and MBA degrees from UPenn and Wharton and her MSc in social psychology from the London School of Economics. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three daughters.